The Life of Margarethe Thomsen

Portrait of an Early California Pioneer  Woman

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Written on the back, "Ben's mother."  We believe that the young girl in the middle is Margarethe and the lady is her mother, Maria.  We do not know who the young boy is. 

The Red Jacket in Hobson's Bay
Attributed to Thomas Robertson, oil on canvas, c. 1856.
This painting depicts three American clipper ships, Lightning, JamesBaines and Red Jacket in Hobson's Bay a s seen from Pt.Gellibrand. Port Melbourne can be seen in the background.A small rowing boat in the foreground with a pennant `Argus' shows journalists from the Melbourne paperrowing out to the vessels to gather the latest news.

The Newly Arrived Inquiring by S. T. Gill

(Gold Museum, Sir Henry Bolte Trust Acquisition Fund, 96.0115.22.)

Zealous Gold Diggers, Bendigo, 1854 by S. T. Gill

(Gold Museum, Sir Henry Bolte Trust Acquisition Fund, 96.0115.4)

Red Jacket, published by Currier & Ives, New York, USA, c. 1854

A 3 masted, square-rigged ship, similar to the Iconium, the ship that Margarethe, George and Chris sailed from Australia to San Francisco in 1861.

Early waterfront map of San Francisco.

Vue de San-Francisco Vista de San-Francisco / dessiné et lithog. par Deroy. , by Isador Laurent Deroy

(Paris:  ca 1860)

Margarethe Thomsen

Hans Frederik Briand de Crevecoeur in his Danish Army uniform.

Margarethe Jost

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